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JB Lighting will be showing its new A8 which, like the company's A12, features a newly developed optical system and shares its wide zoom angle of 8° - 48°.

The A8 uses a total of 37 RGBW multi-chip LEDs, 15 Watt each, as a light source. In combination with an efficient optical system they create both saturated and pastel colours as well as white with what the company describes as "an impressive brightness". The A8 has hexagonally formed exit lenses which produce a uniform luminous field.

The "inner values" of the A8 are hidden in the compact housing and include three-phase stepper motors, silent additional fans and a receiver module for JB-lighting Wireless DMX. 3-pin and 5-pin DMX connectors and Powercon In/Out for easy handling.

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Visual Productions, which specialises in lighting control products including hardware solutions and cross-platform software lighting control for Mac, Windows, and Linux, will be showing its CueCore Solid-State Control, aimed at addressing the issue of maintenance in installations.

Maintenance required to keep the lighting and its control system working well over time, observes the company, must be keep to a minimum in an installation. In many, the computer proves to be the weakest link and is the main cause for maintenance - including instances such as a broken fan, dust on the heatsink or a defective power supply. However, with CueCore as part of an installation, no computer is required.

The CueCore is a lighting controller for permanent installations in museums, themed venues, parks, architectural lighting projects, bars, clubs and other projects.

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Exhibiting its growing range of stage lighting control products, Avolites brings to PLASA 2011 its expansive Titan Range and the production launch of the Sapphire Touch.

The Sapphire Touch has undergone significant aesthetic enhancements and employs the newest technology available. It combines twin multi-touch screens with 45 motorized touch sensitive faders and an Optical trackball with Z axis ring, affording designers faster control of complex fixtures.

In addition, the company adds, the Titan Mobile "heralds a new dawn of compact world-class lighting control consoles". Ideal for designers on the move, this lightweight console brings all the Avolites experience and quality to an affordable level and has been used on tour with the likes of Fat Boy Slim and Groove Armada.

These latest innovations incorporate Avolites' fully integrated Titan Operating System, which feature

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Rose Bruford College will be featuring its two innovative new programmes in Performance Sound and Creative Lighting Control. These three-year BA programmes are unique in Higher Education, and with two year's of graduates working in the industry, says the college, they are already making their mark.

BA (Hons) Performance Sound reflects the growing importance of sound in every field of performance - from theatre to music concerts, from sports events to dance, and from site-specific installation to radio drama. The programme combines sound design, technology and operation, with a strong emphasis on live production, and has recently attracted the support of key players in the audio industry, including sponsorship by Harman Pro Group UK in the shape of a Soundcraft VI-1 digital mixer.

BA (Hons) Creative Lighting Control has been created in response to rapidly growing industry demand for s

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SPOTLIGHT SRL is to launch a new LED fresnel luminaire at PLASA 2011, the AR 12 LED 100 CW Z. The compact luminaire, the latest addition to Spotlight's Sintesi range, has a quoted power consumption of 100W power for a light output of 8,000 lumens.

The fixture is available in Cool, Warm and Natural white versions, and the company underlines the quality of the materials used and its pursuit of simplicity, design efficiency and optimisation of the internal airflow.

A very wide 9°-85° zoom also suits the fixture to floodlight lighting, a feature that broadens its appeal to TV studios. Like its companions at the top end of the Sintesi range the unit is completely noiseless, and features both a built-in DMX dimmer and manual light adjustment through a potentiometer.

Supplied accessories include a colour frame, barn-doors which provide a perfect cut and a solid but lightweight sus

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PLASA 2011 will see Elation Professional launch its new Platinum Wash LED Zoom, which features some of the company's latest technologies in a powerful, compact, energy-efficient DMX moving head LED color wash with a built-in zoom.

Featuring a 300-watt Quad Color LED system and built on Elation's space-saving Platinum base, the Platinum Wash LED Zoom offers brilliant RGBW colors in a trimmed-down fixture that the company says is as ideal for concerts and stages as it is for churches and theatrical applications.

Powered by 30 x 10-watt RGBW CREE LEDs, the Platinum Wash LED Zoom, says Elation, produces an output comparable to a 575-watt discharge moving head, yet drawing only 360W at maximum use, offering notable energy savings over fixtures with conventional lamps. The LED source emits 1,672 lux / 155 foot-candles at 16 feet (4.8m) - for a bold, bright wash in any color. Elation adds t

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Out Board will preview iPad and iPhone apps developed to control the TiMax2 SoundHub mix matrix, playback server and audio show control matrix. Simple factory-default setups are user-configurable, and a custom programming service provides bespoke GUIs specifically tailored to individual systems and sound effects control projects.

Also on demonstration will be the new S-Version software features for the TiMax2 SoundHub - the PanSpace effects map and TimeLine Editor for in-depth sound-effects programming, featuring multi-channel waveform-based editing, looping, panning, volume profiling and versatile show control trigger management. TiMax2 SoundHub is a scaleable mix-engine, sound effects playback server and delay-matrix platform which offers up to 64 channels of analogue or AES I/O - with MADI, Ethersound, CobraNet and Dante networking options - in a single compact 2U chassis.

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The Show Translations closed caption system uses the latest technology to deliver real-time captioning, in a wide selection of languages for the hearing impaired, increasing the accessibility of theatre productions and fulfilling the theatre's commitment to corporate responsibility.

Using a high reliability wireless network, the system delivers captions for the performance to full colour, widescreen personal handsets. The captions are updated automatically over the network, so all the theatregoer has to do is select the language of their choice, sit back and enjoy the show. An operator in the theatre controls the system, so the captions are always synchronised with the performance.

Unlike traditional theatre captioning, the system is designed to eliminate any distractions to other audience members. The screen is black, and the brightness of the captions carefully controlled to avoid

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Martin Professional will launch its new EC-10 high performance, true 10 mm pixel pitch LED display panel at PLASA 2011. The EC-10 teams with Martin's EC-20 to form a fully compatible EC family of LED displays that can be mixed and matched for ultimate design creativity.

Featuring the same award-winning, lightweight and cable-free design for rapid deployment, the EC-10 is 100% compatible with the EC-20 in terms of color, setup, curving, and control and processing, even accessories, allowing for seamless, mixed resolution visuals in one system.

Using high efficiency Nichia LEDs, the EC-10 offers visual performance at the highest level. Pinpoint 48-bit color processing ensures uncompromised color depth at any brightness setting. Each pixel is color and brightness calibrated for maximum color and brightness uniformity and consistency from pixel to pixel and panel to panel.

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USA - FocusTrack, the production lighting documentation system, has been chosen to create a record of the lighting on another hit Broadway show: the new musical Sister Act. The show is now playing at New York's Broadway Theatre after a successful run in London.

FocusTrack was specified by production electrician Michael Pitzer to document Tony Award-winning lighting designer Natasha Katz's work on the show. Pitzer has previously used the software on The Addams Family and the Broadway revival of Les Misérables. On Sister Act, the software took the information from the show's grandMA console, programmed by Hillary Knox, and identified more than 1600 lamp-focus positions across the show's 125 moving lights - an average of over 12 positions per light.

With the lighting complete, Pitzer organised a focus plot session where he connected FocusTrack t

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UK - Sound Technology is set to debut JBL's new Marquis Dance Club Series Loudspeakers at PLASA on stand no: E21.

The series comprises eight models all designed to bring a new level of sonic excellence to dance club environments and incorporates new driver configurations and enclosure designs to deliver "powerful, immersive sound with exceptional clarity and fidelity even at higher volume levels".

Jon Sager, senior manager, installed sound, JBL Professional comments, "JBL began offering loudspeakers for club use back in the 1970s, and JBL products helped define club sound when the industry was just beginning. The JBL Marquis Dance Club Series continues this heritage of innovation with a range of purpose-designed loudspeakers that bring high-impact sound to club goers who want to feel and hear all the excitement of the music."

The MD1, MD2, MD3 and MD7 ult

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UK - Dealers and customers were treated to a fashion show with a difference at the recent John Deere 2011 new product launch which was held in the majestic setting of Thrumpton Hall, just outside Nottingham.

Newark based events and exhibitions specialist, OneBigStar supplied full production and design services for the reveal show which took place in a large saddle span tent in the grounds of the 17th century stately home. With the models weighing in at up to sixteen ton and measuring four metres wide, the event, entitled Setting Directions needed a fair bit of space- and some innovative production.

Guests were seated in a 250 capacity auditorium inside the tent to view technical product presentations on multiple screens given by John Deere staff whilst the new products paraded (or in most cases were driven) past. This was followed by an opportunity for a close up inspec

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UK - One of the south's largest University complexes, the University of the West of England in Bristol called in acoustic design company Munro Acoustics to design and build a new suite of recording studios to serve the expanding audio engineering department.

UWE Music & Multimedia technician, Richard Brown explained that their existing facility lacked isolation and was far too small so they chose Munro because they wanted to be confident of the best possible outcome. "We knew of Munro's reputation and we were not disappointed. In addition to being a good looking design, the new rooms are amazingly well isolated and acoustically perfect for what we needed, " he said. "As well as recording and mixing audio the rooms will be used for film dubbing and other audio applications, giving us complete flexibility."

The complex consists of a main live area which doubl

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Germany - The National Theatre Mannheim is a theatre and opera company with a celebrated history that stretches back centuries. Housing a variety of performance spaces for opera, ballet and theatre, it is also notable for being the oldest local theatre in Germany.

Head of lighting at Mannheim National Theatre is Nicole Berry who has recently overseen the installation of new Martin MAC III Performance moving head fixtures, an innovative high-output luminaire with interleaved framing system.

Used as downlights and front lights in both the 1200-seat opera house and 640-seat theatre, Berry lists a number of features of the MAC luminaire as outstanding, not least the fixture's framing system and sharp projection quality over all four framing blades.

The MAC III Performances were purchased for the National Theatre Mannheim via Werning Theatertechnik of Recklinghausen with service

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Iraq - Local audio company Farasout Negar has completed the design and installation of a PA system for calling Muslims to prayer at the Imam Mousa Kazim Holy Shrine in Kazmein, Iraq.

To achieve 360-degree coverage and very high SPLs, Farasout Negar designed a system based on 16 Community RSH-462 exponential FocusedArray horn systems. Each voice-range RSH-462 utilises four Community M200 ferrofluid-cooled compression drivers mounted to a hand laminated, reinforced composite fibreglass horn-array with a 60 degree horizontal and 20 degree vertical coverage pattern. With a sensitivity of 117dB for 1W at 1 metre and a 750W program power handling capacity the RSH-462 provided the considerable SPL required.

Coverage was achieved by mounting four RSH-462 in each of the shrine's four minarets, at a height of 33m from the ground. Four Lab.gruppen C28:4 four-channel power amplifiers are

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UK - All Star Family Fortunes is now filming its sixth series, presented by Vernon Kay. The ITV show is designed by Dave Davey and supported by Richard Martin Lighting (RML).

The lighting rig includes Stage Colour 300, Mac 500 and Mac 600.

The industry standard MAC 600 is a powerful wash light with a CMY colour mixing system, 440° of pan and 306° of tilt and a fast and smooth movement.

Each show, two teams of five family members (headed up by a celebrity captain) go head to head trying to guess the top answers in a series of open ended survey questions given to 100 members of the general public.

(Jim Evans)

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Morocco - Late May saw Morocco's Festival Mawazine - Rhythms Of The World celebrate its 10th anniversary with an event that was bigger and more diverse than ever. Bringing together an eclectic array of artists from across the globe, Sennheiser helped to ensure that every one of a highly varied collection of traditional instruments and vocals was heard in detail.

Festival Mawazine - Rhythms Of The World takes place in the Moroccan capital Rabat and is patronised by the country's King Mohammed VI. Featuring live concerts, street shows, art and creative workshops, it is noted for hosting performances in a wide range of venues.

One venue - the Roman and medieval ruins of Chellah - featured an all-digital audio system, which was the result of close co-operation between Sennheiser France, Sennheiser Global Relations, K-array, Innovason, Rabat-based audio company HLO / TLS and French

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UK - Chauvet will launch the release of Q-Wash 260-LED to the European market at PLASA 2011, stand F-53. Additionally, Chauvet will be participating in this year's STLD LED Shoot Out presented by Society of Television Lighting and Design.

Chauvet's Q-Wash 260-LED joins the Q-Series of moving heads which have always stood for quality, value and groundbreaking LED technology. Chauvet's Q-Wash 260-LED is no different. It is an incredibly punchy, fast and compact moving head wash light with RGB colour mixing. This lightweight, easy-to-install unit has 37 three-watt, RGB LEDs, a six-degree beam angle, and nine or 12 channels of DMX control. Q-Wash 260-LED is an economical fixture which can be used in larger dynamic arrays or groups, and has an effect similar to a colour-changing ACL fixture.

Chauvet joins other leading manufacturers in a shoot-out of LED lighting fixtures, led by L

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UK - Yamaha Commercial Audio Europe comes to PLASA2011 on the back of the company's most successful ever festival season and is showing three products which are making their European trade show debuts.

Summer2011 has seen the highest ever number of Yamaha PM5D digital mixing consoles at work in a single summer season, as it is now regarded as 'the standard' for outdoor monitor systems. Yamaha consoles have been in use at the majority of Europe's biggest festivals, while the continuing expansion of the market has seen the M7CL and LS9 become mainstays of an ever-growing variety of outdoor shows.

Exhibiting on Stand 1-G31, PLASA2011 sees Yamaha showing three new products which continue to broaden the company's ranges and add value and functionality to existing systems.

Nearly 50,000 copies of the original StageMix iPad app have been downloaded since its launch at PLASA last ye

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UK - Sound Technology will premiere AKG's flagship DMS 700 V2 digital wireless system at PLASA on stand no E21.

AKG has launched the DMS 700 V2 digital wireless microphone system. With 512-bit encryption, ultra-low latency and the new DPT700 bodypack, DMS700 V2 offers artists and engineers "absolute confidence in performance with a reliable, easy-to- use wireless component".

The DMS 700 V2 improves the link quality and increases the working range of the transmitters and receivers to allow for more freedom in arranging anything from lecture halls in universities to houses of worship and live performances on tour to broadcast operations, says the company.

Already compatible with the future-proof Channel 38, DMS700 v2 is now available pre-loaded with UK-specific frequency presets. In addition, DMS700 v2 is now also available with a hand-held transmitter featuring AKG'

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South Africa - ProAudio, distributors of HK Audio in South Africa has announced a restructuring within the HK Audio support base in SA.

A dedicated HK Audio Specialist has been appointed to provide after sales support for the HK Audio brand. Andrew Sorrill has been in the professional audio industry since 1995, serving various sectors from a sound engineer, audio mixer, audio department manager, advisor and lecturer. He is also a seasoned radio broadcaster.

The HK Audio Specialist will amongst others, provide sound-related advice, on-site quotations and general expertise, product knowledge and information on HK Audio products. Seminars will also be held on audio education as well as selected HK Audio brands.

ProAudio has a large product show room which clients are encouraged to visit to take a listen to the various HK Audio loudspeaker systems for first hand experience. Plan

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